If you go down to the woods today, you're sure for a big surprise, as the trailer for the upcoming indie horror film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has finally dropped. First announced in May, the news of the slasher film take on the beloved characters certainly made an impact. With the reveal of teaser posters and images showing grotesque and hulking versions of Pooh and Piglet, horror fans were intrigued.
The characters of Winnie the Pooh became public domain this year, meaning anything goes and the trailer for the new horror film certainly shows that. The first trailer for Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey dropped today from Jagged Edge Productions and in it, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield gives fans a closer look at the story, characters, and gore involved in the new film.
The trailer opens with Christopher Robin and his girlfriend/fiancée Mary in the woods with Christopher leading the way to his old childhood hideout and his friends Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore. The couple stumbles across the place now trashed and complete with what looks like a grave marker for Eeyore. The on-screen text provides exposition stating, "The beloved childhood characters have been abandoned by Christopher Robin and have turned wild."
After a brief flash of what the roly-poly bear has become, it cuts to a group of women arriving at a house for a getaway, but they are quickly set upon by Pooh and Piglet as the duo squeal, hack, and slash their way through the group. There are chase scenes, scrawled messages in blood, and a particularly brutal pool attack as Christopher Robin begs for them to stop crying, "We used to be friends!"
Back in May, director Frake-Waterfield spoke to Variety about the project and the response it has received. The plot sees Pooh and Piglet go on a murderous rampage after being abandoned by Christopher Robin when he goes to college. “Because they’ve had to fend for themselves so much, they’ve essentially become feral,” Waterfield said. “So they’ve gone back to their animal roots. They’re no longer tame: they’re like a vicious bear and pig who want to go around and try and find prey.”
Shot in only ten days in England, the film is also written and co-produced by Waterfield for his production company Jagged Edge Productions, which he runs alongside partner Scott Jeffrey. ITN has picked up the film for distribution, but there is no release date for Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey as of yet.
Source: Jagged Edge Productions, Variety